March 18, 2002 Issue
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Feature
A ‘Second Front’ in the Philippines
America called on its former colony to fill the bill for a sequel to Al Qaeda.
Walden Bello
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The Anthrax Fumble
Bureaucratic timidity and turf battles needlessly put many Americans at risk.
Dr. Marc Siegel
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Mayor Jerry Brown, Take II
He's created new projects, made new friends--and some bitter enemies.
Marc Cooper
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Editorial
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Column
On the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence
The OSI's intent to disinform
Received responses that were less than warm.
The Pentagon now says it doesn't need
An office just to lie and to mislead.
There is, though, one false fact they're not eschewing:
The notion that the brass know what they're doing.Calvin Trillin
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Condolences to Musharraf
What the Islamic fascists do, and what they believe, and what they intend, are three aspects of the same one-dimensional thing. It is ludicrous to accuse them of being untrue to themselves or their cause. The usual rush to "understand" Pervez Musharraf's difficulties seems to supply a partial explanation for this moral feebleness.
Christopher Hitchens
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Books & the Arts
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Messenger
The birds stopped coming after the annuals died.
I didn't realize how much I missed them until the bluebirdReturned, lured by the burgundy haze of the fall pansies
Pouring from the window boxes. I was too slow findingThe camera and then I left the cap on. The bird rose
Into a cut of sky and I was left with a vision of blue--His sapphire eye and marigold breast. Maybe it was you,
Released from your standing body--fingers fluid betweenTissue and organ--as you operate in the crowded surgical
Theatre, transformed to tell me autumn is here. I would notBe surprised. This brief visit imitates your frequent calls
Between cases. After he flies, the room seems to hold you.I see the white waves throwing themselves into the Cliffs
Of Moher, your eyes stealing blue from the sky.Jennifer Franklin
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